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Jan Thompson, NFFE’s Western Region Business Representative, Retires After Remarkable 32 Year Career With NFFE

Friday, August 30, 2019

(National Federation of Federal Employees)

NFFE
National
Business Representative Jan Thompson (center)
receiving an organizing award in
2018.

Jan Thompson, beloved and
long-time NFFE National Business
Representative,
is set to retire this week and will serve her
last day today, Friday, August
30, 2019.

Thompson began her union
career as a Range Conservationist
with the U.S. Forest Service in Bishop,
California at the Inyo National Forest.
After successfully organizing her colleagues
and serving as the president of
the newly established local, Thompson was
offered a Business Representative
position in 1987 and moved to Oklahoma to
service NFFE’s western
locals.

In the course of her
32-year career with NFFE, Thompson
estimates that she’s represented our members
in at least half of the United
States. As the current Western territory
Business Representative, she has worn
many hats over the years, and that is just what
she has loved about the job.

“I have met so many
remarkable sisters and brothers over the
years. It has been my pleasure to work, learn,
and grow with them. I will miss
them all and feel truly grateful and humbled to
have had the pleasure to serve
my great union and its members throughout my
career with NFFE,” Thompson
remarked.

Thompson is set to
officially begin her retirement this
coming Saturday with a flight to Barcelona,
Spain and a two-week cruise. When
she returns, she is excited to attend a Bible
Study Fellowship at her church,
volunteer with a non-profit that fights human
trafficking, and catch up on
projects around the house.

NFFE National President
Randy Erwin expressed his thanks and
admiration for Jan’s more than three decades
with NFFE.

“I am so very proud of
my great friend and sister, Jan
Thompson, and all that she has done in her
32-year career with NFFE,” said
President Erwin. “From the first time I met
her, I knew she was one of the kindest
people I had ever met, and my opinion never
changed. Over the years, I watched
her incredible work ethic as she serviced her
Locals and helped our union grow
and prosper. I look back on her time in this
union and just think, ‘Wow, what
an amazing career!’ NFFE is so lucky to have
had Jan Thompson as a business representative
in this union. We simply wouldn’t be where we
are today without her.
Congratulation, Jan, on your much-deserved
retirement!”

Please join us in thanking
Jan for her tremendous and
selfless service to our union. She will be
greatly missed and is leaving behind
big shoes to fill.